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A Global Push for More Computer Science in Classrooms is Starting to Bear Fruit
Credit: Satoshi Kambayashi / The Economist
Digital technology is now so ubiquitous that many think a rounded education requires a grounding in this subject just as much as in biology, chemistry or physics. The shortage of skilled programmers is clear from the high salaries they command. Judith Gal-Ezer of the Open University of Israel says a growing share of jobs in developed countries require "computational thinking": the ability to formulate problems in such a way that they can be tackled by computers.
The subject is so young that teachers and curriculum designers have little pedagogical research to guide them, says Peter Hubwieser of the Technical University of Munich.
From The Economist
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